Free Software Magazine: You Needn’t Eat Spam (Or Worms)

“Many who would cure us of spam look in the wrong
place–technology–for the answer. These well-intentioned analysts
rightly see this menace as resulting from a state machine that can
be tweaked, but they should look to the I/O relationships of human
behavior rather than communications protocols for the solution.

“A pestilence in its own right, spam is also the dead canary in
the mineshaft sternly warning us that the new communication and
control system the world will inevitably come to rely upon for
mission-critical tasks is dangerously vulnerable to catastrophe
from any seriously talented programmer with a motive for
chaos…”

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